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North and South America) ; and, more than this, species have a 

 limited range on that particular continent to which they are 

 confined. 



The same species among the Monkeys — the tribe at the head of 

 brute Mammals — in no instance occurs on both ; nor even the 

 same genus ; nor even the same family ; for the American type is 

 that of the inferior Platyrr Junes, while the African is that of the 

 Catarrhities (p. 422), which most approach Man in their features and 

 structure. This is only the highest of an extensive range of facts 

 in Zoology sustaining the principle in view. If, therefore, Man is 

 of one species, he should be restricted also to one continent in his 

 origin. 



Moreover, Man's capability of spreading to all lands, and of 

 adaptation to all climates, renders creation in different localities 

 over the globe eminently unnecessary and directly opposed to his 

 own good. It would be doing for Man what Man could do of him- 

 self. It would be contracting the field of conquest before him in 

 nature, thereby lessening his means and opportunities of develop- 

 ment. 



Origin on some part of the Oriental continent. — The Orient has always 

 been the continent of Progress. From the close of the Palseozoic 

 its species of animal life have been three times as numerous as those 

 of North America, and more varied in genera. In the early Ter- 

 tiary its flora in the European portion had an Australian type, and 

 there were Marsupials and Edentates there. In the middle and 

 later Tertiary it represented recent North America in its flora. 

 But from this condition it emerged to a higher grade. In the Post- 

 tertiary it became the land of the Carnivores, while North America 

 was the continent as distinctively of Herbivores, — an inferior type, 

 — South America, of Edentates, — still lower, — Australia, of the lowest 

 of quadrupeds, — the Marsupials. In the closing creations Australia 

 remained Marsupial, though with dwindled forms ; South America 

 was still the land of Edentates, but of smaller species, and with in- 

 ferior Carnivores and the inferior type of Monkeys or Quaclrumana; 

 North America, of Herbivores, also small compared with the Post- 

 tertiary ; while the Orient, besides its new Carnivores, received the 

 highest of the Quadrumana. Thus the Orient had successively 

 passed through the Australian and American stages, and, leaving 

 the other continents behind, it stood in the forefront of progress. 

 It is therefore in accordance with all past analogies that Man should 

 have originated on some part of the great Orient; and no spot 

 would seem to have been better fitted for Man's self-distribution 

 and self-development than southwestern Asia,— the centre from 



